After The Hobbit was published the company of Allen and Unwin wanted a sequel. Before and during his writing of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien asked if they would publish Farmer Giles of Ham. The problem was that Farmer Giles was too short for a stand-alone book. Tolkien offered to write another story set in the Little Kingdom, about "the adventures of Prince George (the farmer's son) and the fat boy Suovetaurilius (vulgarly Suet) and the Battle of Otmoor"[2] which would add enough material for a book. Eventually Farmer Giles would be published but Tolkien never wrote the sequel, which remained only a sketch.[3]